Melbourne Cup Live Stream: How to watch the Melbourne Cup live online for free

The Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) will have another chapter written into history in 2018 and you can you can watch the Race That Stops A Nation unfold live online.

After the history-making victory of Prince of Penzance, who helped Michelle Payne become the first female rider to win the Melbourne Cup, in 2015 and the success of Almandin and Rekindling for Lloyd Williams, who will add their name to the honour roll?

The 2018 running of the Melbourne Cup promises to be as thrilling as ever with international gallopers bidding to take the prize overseas and a strong home team looking to add their names into folklore.

If you're unlucky enough not to be a Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day or find yourself away from the television, you can watch the entire race streamed online for free.